Complaint

I know I haven’t posted anything for a long time, and I want to break the silence with a complaint. This is a complaint about AT&T realtionship with their existing and future customers:

First, they try to trick the average user (like me) to believe that he/she is going to pay less for the I-phone relative to it’s predecessor. They tells us that AT&T subsidize the cost and it is $200 cheaper then the previous generation. What they don’t tell us is that you pay $10 more per month relative to the previous generation. Since you are signing for a 2 year contract, that is $240 more!

Second, there is a discrimination of AT&T existing customers. The deal is that you can get the I-phone only for the discounted price. This price works only for new customers from other networks (or eligible customers within AT&T). An existing customer (like me) that wants to get the I-phone for its full retail price –
CAN NOT DO IT!
That basically mean that we are “held hostage” by AT&T until the end of the contract. My guess is that this short term strategy will come back to hunt AT&T. People don’t like to feel “second level customers” only because they signed a two years agreement.

Frog Pond

Last week we got to finally do an activity that for long time was very high on our to do list – Ice Skating in the famous Frog Pond. It seems like you can not call yourself a proud Bostonian if you can not talk about the last time you iced skated over their (along with mentioning where you where when the Red Socks won the world series).

So, last weak it was our first time. We went their with Jim and Melissa that proved to be experienced skiers (and patient till we got our technique right).

My summary – definitely a preferred activity for those non-that-cold winter days.

After that we went to P.F. CHANG'S, a Chinese restaurant nearby. This was actually our second time there. After considering it Thoroughly, my recommendation is: go their in groups of at least four people and share your dishes. The variety is very big in type and taste and together it makes a wonderful combination. Additionally we really liked the banana rolls for desert.

Christmas decorations

People like to decorate their house for Christmas.

But have a look at the pictures below. The rumor says, the owner invested half a million dollar in those decorations. And that is for only few weeks.

We met the owner and he seems very nice. I guess you must be, if you are willing to invest so much to lift the holiday spirit…